Motivational Interviewing : A Guide for Medical Trainees

This may be the single most important book you ever buy during your medical training that will help you learn about how to engage patients in a discussion about behavior change. Whatever field you pursue, patient-care will be at the heart of your practice. The second edition of Motivational Interviewing is transforming the way we engage with patients and colleagues alike. This manual is ideal for any medical doctors at all levels in their career. The text is thorough yet concise and easily accessible using clinical vignettes, personal reflections, self-assessment quizzes, and online video clips of clinical cases.

Antoine Douaihy, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He serves as the Senior Academic Director of Addiction Medicine Services and Director of the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship at Western Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Dr. Douaihy has been a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) since 2002. He has focused his career on patient care, education, mentoring of medical trainees, and research in the areas of psychology of behavior change, motivational interviewing (MI), substance use disorders, and HIV. Dr. Douaihy has been a champion in the implementation and dissemination of MI across healthcare settings and has been the recipient of multiple teaching and mentoring awards, including the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award and The Charles Watson Teaching Award, recognizing him for the qualities of a masterful clinician, academician, caretaker of his patients, educator, mentor, and contributor to the medical school community and community at large.

Thomas M. Kelly, PhD, began his career as a licensed Clinical Social Worker at the Western Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in 1982. Dr. Kelly received his doctoral degree in social work in 1996 from the University of Pittsburgh and served as the Director of the Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Service until 2014. Dr. Kelly's other work focused on teaching, consultation, and research. He was a Co-Investigator with the National Institute on Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network and has published over 50 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Kelly has been a MINT member since 2005, and has conducted training workshops, lectures, and seminars, locally and nationally. Dr. Kelly retired from full-time practice as an Associate Professor of Psychiatry in 2014. He continues to publish on psychiatric treatment.

Melanie A. Gold, DO, is Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Child and Adolescent Health, Section of Adolescent Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and in the Department of Population & Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health. She serves as Medical Director of New York Presbyterian's School Based Health Centers (SBHCs). Dr. Gold is a Pediatrician who is board certified in Adolescent Medicine. She trained in MI in 1998 and has been a MINT member since 2000. MI has become an integral and critical component of her work as a clinician, researcher, educator, and administrator.